http://www.mail.com/organizations/56486-national-park-service.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/organizations/56486-national-park-service.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2136124-500-feet-above-washington-monument.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The towering marble symbol of the nation's capital is chipped, cracked and closed, though will soon be pieced back together by engineers working delicately across the Washington Monument's surface. Some gashes in the 555-foot-tall monument are deep with stones cracked all the way through, while others have hairline cracks or had their co... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:48:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2136124-500-feet-above-washington-monument.html 2013-06-07T13:48:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2108624-furlough-friday-unpaid-day-govt.html WASHINGTON (AP) — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide. It was "furlough Friday." Roughly 5 percent of the federal workforce — 115,000 people at six major agencies — were told not to show up as the gover... Fri, 24 May 2013 21:20:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2108624-furlough-friday-unpaid-day-govt.html 2013-05-24T21:20:31Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2099360-report-nps-hantavirus-response-policy.html YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run lodging first be reviewed by National Park Service officials. The report released by the Interior Department's Office of Inspector Gen... Tue, 21 May 2013 04:11:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2099360-report-nps-hantavirus-response-policy.html 2013-05-21T04:11:36Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2023022-park-service-chief-defends-handling-budget-cuts.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing withering criticism from House Republicans, the director of the National Park Service Tuesday rejected suggestions the agency purposely hyped the negative impact of mandatory spending reductions for political gain. Automatic cuts to the agency, said Park Service chief Jon Jarvis, are "painful by definition. We have worked to try a... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:01:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2023022-park-service-chief-defends-handling-budget-cuts.html 2013-04-16T20:01:21Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1971318-alcatraz-marks-50-years-closure-with-photos.html ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif. (AP) — The black-and-white photographs show a line of prisoners — some with heads bowed, others with eyes staring forlornly at the camera — as a guard leads them to a boat for their final trip off The Rock. The striking images were taken on March 21, 1963, the day the infamous prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay was clos... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:31:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1971318-alcatraz-marks-50-years-closure-with-photos.html 2013-03-21T22:31:44Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1908504-apnewsbreak-national-park-cuts-detailed-memo.html SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The towering giant sequoias at Yosemite National Park would go unprotected from visitors who might trample their shallow roots. At Cape Cod National Seashore, large sections of the Great Beach would close to keep eggs from being destroyed if natural resource managers are cut. Gettysburg would decrease by one-fifth the numbers of ... Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:38:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1908504-apnewsbreak-national-park-cuts-detailed-memo.html 2013-02-23T00:38:01Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1908740-obama-hill-right-decisions-cuts.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, intensifying pressure on congressional Republicans, said Friday that lawmakers still have "the opportunity to make the right decisions" and avert a series of mandatory budget cuts by March 1. Despite little sign of a deal emerging with Republicans, Obama said he does not believe it is inevitable that the $85 billi... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:54:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1908740-obama-hill-right-decisions-cuts.html 2013-02-22T19:54:05Z